The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-06-05

diers OF all sections meet In peace, and the 4
times when they met IN contest. Contrast /
the feeling Of sectional bitterness in 1
ls6a with the feeling of sectional unity I
in 1857. At the first date the south 4
had banished the national air. The 1
Star Spangled Banner and the north had 4
banished the popular air Of sway Down 1
South in Dixie The northern people were 1
-mudsiIls- and the southern people were 4
-white trash The more southern people |
were killed in battle the better the north /
liked il. The more northern people were |
killed in battle the better the south liked it. |
For four years the head of Abraham Lincoln |
or jefferson Davis would have been worth |
81 10000, if delivered on either side the line
No need now, standing i'm our pulpits and |
platforms, Of saying that the north and south /
did not hate each other. To estimate how |
very dearly they loved each other, count up
the bomtshells that were hurled and the car
bines that were loaded and the cavalry
horses that We're mounted, north and south
facing each other. all armed, i'm the attempt
to kill. The two sections not only marshaled
all their earthly hostilities, but tried 20 reach
up and get hold Of the sword of heaven.
and the prayer Of the northern anil south
ern pulpits gave more information To the
heavens about the best mode Of settling this
trouble than used. For four years
both sides tried to get hold of the Lords
thunderbolts, but could not quite reach them
At the breaking out of the war We had not
for months heard of my dear uncle Samuel
J. Talmage, president of the Oglethorpe uni
versity, in Georgia. He was about the
granlest man ever knew, and as good a,
good could he. The first we heard Of him
was his opening prayer i'm the Confederate
congress in Richmond, which was reported in
the New York papers. which prayer il
answered would, to say the least, have left
all his northern relatives in very uncomfort-
able circumstances. The ministry at the
north prayed one way and the ministry al
the south prayed the other way. No use in
hiding the fact that the north and the south
cursed each other with "A whitening and all
consuming curse.
Beside that antipathy of war time place
the complete accord of this time Not long
ago n meeting in New York was held TO raise
money to build a home at Richmond for
| crippled Confederate soldiers, and was pre-
sided over by man who lost an arm and a
leg in fighting on the northern side, and the
| leg which was not lost 80 hurt that it does not
amount 10 much. Tho Cotton exhibition held
| not long ago mt Atlanta was attended by tens
| of thousands of northern people and by Gen
| Sherman, who was greeted with kindness ms
| though they had never seen him before AT
| the New Orleans exhibition held two wears
| ago, every northern state was represented 4
thousand fold kindier feeling after the wal
than before the war. No more use for gun
powder in this country, except for rife prac-
tce or Fourth of July pyrotechnics or a shot
| at "A roebucll in the Adiroudaclzs Brigaaiar
| generals the Southern Confederacy
making their fortunes a. lawyers in the
northern cities. Rivers of Georgia, Ala
| baIna and North Carolina turning
mills of New England capitalists. The old
lions of war, Fort Sumter and Moultrie and
| Lafayette and PicIens and Hamilton, sound
asleep on their iron paws and instead of rails
| ing money To keep enemies out of our New
York harbor. raising money for the Barthold
stctutc ON Bedloes island, figure of liberty
with upifted torch to light the way to all
who want to come III. Instead of war antip-
athies, when you could not cross the line be-
tween the contestants without fighting your
way with keen steel or getting through by
| passes carefully scrutinized at every step by
bayonets, you nee1 only n railroad ticket
from New York to Charleston or New Orleans
to go clear through and there is no use for
any weapon sharper or stronger than a steel
pen. Since the years of time began their
roll, has there ever been in about two decades
such an overmastering antithesis as between
the war time of complete bitterness, and this
time of complete sympathyt
Contrast also the domestic life of those
times with the domestic life of these times.
Many of you were either leaving home or far
away from 1t. communicating by uncertain
letter " bat morning mat was when you
lett hofne' rather ana iiiolner CITY ing sisters
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Androscoggin, don't you remember the scenes
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the steamboat landing. The huzza could not
drown out the suppressed sadness. Don't you
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